A326 crash in the New Forest on 26 June 2023 at 09:28 involving a Porsche 718
A Porsche 718 crashed on the A326 in the New Forest at 09:28 on Monday 26 June 2023. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2023
- Monday, 09:28
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 718
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 50.91223, longitude -1.49204, in the SO40 postcode district and within the built-up area of Totton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Marchwood & Eling, New Forest, SO40 9NE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in the New Forest
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023440254271
- Council area
- New Forest
- Police force
- Hampshire
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Hampshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 326
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 October 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 27 October 1986
3 m awayRef 1986440ET0165
Serious
Peugeot 107 crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 4 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022440133641
Slight
Car crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 19 December 1983
8 m awayRef 1983440ET0219
Slight
Nissan X-Trail crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 23 June 2025
9 m awayRef 2025440276349
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 6 January 2012
11 m awayRef 2012440008308
Slight
Van crash on the A326 in the New Forest, 19 February 1986
11 m awayRef 1986440ET0028
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 718
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 718)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2023440254271 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the New Forest road accident statistics for 2023.